Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burglar had entered the suite through an unlocked door while the student was in the shower...
...Bell Atlantic Website includes a checklist of other potential areas of concern--for instance, burglar alarms and business telephone systems that may not work without modification. The Website also lists devices that may need to be reprogrammed, such as modems, fax machines, pager notification on voice mail systems and speed-dialing lists...
...kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst That Could Happen?) is that everyone in the hero's extensive social...
...inability to keep information about ourselves private is far less insidious than our inability to protect our bodies and property from harm. A burglar entering our home violates our physical privacy in a far more serious way than someone who uses the Internet to steal from us. Most of us would rather receive junk mail than deal with door-to-door salespeople. Basically, the hoodlums have changed the tools of their trade. PAWAN K. BHARTIA Mitchellville...
...consolidate purchases related to home owning that HFS franchisers could handle through affiliated HFS real estate units. For example, PHH could not only find and sell a home to a relocating corporate executive but could also write the mortgage. Silverman sees no reason why anything from title insurance to burglar alarms to satellite dishes or storage space can't be provided through HFS affiliated vendors...